Super interesting article in PS by Kirby Goidel, Keith Gaddie and Spencer Goidel. Here is the abstract: Using content analysis and original survey data, we investigated the news coverage and consequences of Donald Trump’s “rigged-election” claims during the 2016 presidential … Continue reading
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Open Secrets: The Center for Responsive Politics is pleased to announce the publication of “Race, Gender, and Money in Politics: Campaign Finance and Federal Candidates in the 2018 Midterms.” Written by Sarah Bryner, the Center’s research director, and Grace Haley, the Center’s … Continue reading
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This story is going to get bigger: The Republican National Committee promised an “evening reception with Donald J. Trump” last March at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Fla.A contribution of $2,700 toward the president’s re-election would get you in … Continue reading
News & Observer: Like the election fraud controversy itself, the special election will attract national attention. Some analysts say it could be a preview of 2020 in what once again is expected to be a swing state, as well as the state … Continue reading
Kate Ackley for Roll Call. … Continue reading
WaPo: Documents unsealed Thursday in a lawsuit have shed new light on how hackers breached Democratic Party email accounts before the 2016 election.The documents include a forensic analysis by a former top official in the FBI’s cybercrime division, which concluded … Continue reading
From the introduction: A new election is the gravest remedy available to this State agency that has, for a century, supervised elections meant to ensure “[a]ll political power is vested in and derived from the people; all government of right … Continue reading
WBTV: The Department of Justice has issued subpoenas for a federal grand jury investigation into allegations of election fraud in North Carolina’s 9th Congressional District.The US Department of Justice’s Public Integrity Section has issued at least three subpoenas for documents … Continue reading
ProPublica: n 2018, Facebook and Twitter decided to play a role in helping people register to vote in what promised to be a momentous midterm election. To do so, the social media platforms directed users almost exclusively to a website … Continue reading
Philip Bump for WaPo. … Continue reading
Daily Beast: The fight over big money in the 2020 Democratic primary is reaching a new pitch on Friday with an open letter from advocates aimed at presidential candidates benefiting from a single-candidate Super PAC.End Citizens United, the Progressive Change … Continue reading
WaPo: President Trump and his advisers are launching a behemoth 2020 campaign operation combining his raw populist message from 2016 with a massive data-gathering and get-out-the-vote push aimed at dwarfing any previous presidential reelection effort, according to campaign advisers, White … Continue reading
A lot going on in this CNBC story by Christina Wilkie. … Continue reading
This post appears at the Free Internet Project. Don’t miss the Ginni Thomas cameo. … Continue reading
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You knew that Michael Bloomberg, Eric Holder, Jeff Merkley, and Hillary Clinton have all announced in the last two days that they’re not running for President in 2020. But did you know that, as of today, you still have 590 … Continue reading
AP: A ballot-fraud scandal that brought down a Republican candidate and led North Carolina to order a do-over congressional election could give the Democrats a strong shot at taking back a seat that has been held by the GOP since … Continue reading
Meeting today. … Continue reading
Open Secrets: Newly obtained tax records shed additional light on the web of “dark money” organizations tied to President Donald Trump’s top judicial adviser that were used to funnel millions to organizations that boosted the Supreme Court nominations of Neil … Continue reading
CNN: The call sounds like it is coming from President Donald Trump’s 2020 re-election campaign.It even uses a recording of the President’s voice: “I’m Donald Trump. Tonight I am asking you to defend our very dangerous southern border, out of … Continue reading
WaPo: Wake County District Attorney Lorrin Freeman’s decision to seek indictments almost immediately after the close of those hearings sent a “clear signal,” she said, “that we take seriously the public’s confidence in the electoral process and that we intend … Continue reading
Paul Ryan USA Today oped: On Wednesday, in his testimony before the House Oversight Committee, Cohen for the first time provided details to the American people of precisely how Trump directed and coordinated these hush payments in violation of federal … Continue reading
Kim Bellware for NYT Opinion. … Continue reading
Important Eliza Newlin Carney column. … Continue reading
WaPo: Leslie McCrae Dowless, a political operative at the center of a Republican congressional campaign in North Carolina tainted by evidence of ballot fraud, was indicted by a grand jury on seven counts, a prosecutor announced Wednesday.Dowless, who worked for … Continue reading
NYT: The dramatic public testimony to Congress on Wednesday morning by President Trump’s former lawyer, Michael D. Cohen, could intensify the legal issues facing the president in the criminal and civil investigations that are swirling around him, legal experts said.Mr. Cohen’s testimony … Continue reading
WaPo: The U.S. military blocked Internet access to an infamous Russian entity seeking to sow discord among Americans during the 2018 midterms, several U.S. officials said, a warning that the Kremlin’s operations against the United States are not cost-free.The strike … Continue reading
Brad Smith fairly criticizes AOC’s use of his hush money article in the WSJ in her now viral video about campaign money and Washington. I don’t think this undermines many of the points AOC made in her discussion of the … Continue reading
NYT: Senator Elizabeth Warren on Monday escalated her presidential campaign’s battle against big money in politics, announcing that her bid for the Democratic nomination will forgo traditional fund-raising methods meant to cultivate a candidate’s relationships with the wealthy.The Massachusetts senator … Continue reading
Michael Bitzer for The Monkey Cage. … Continue reading
Brian Murphy profiles the NC09 candidate. Assuming the new law requiring a primary holds up to any legal challenge, I’d be shocked if Harris runs again. (If the new primary law is challenged and ruled illegal, and Harris has to … Continue reading
CBS 17: Following the state Board of Elections hearing on fraud in the 9th Congressional district, Wake County District Attorney Lorrin Freeman says she expects to take the case before a grand jury in the next month.Freeman said that case … Continue reading
Montana Public Radio: Montana’s 2015 campaign finance law survived its biggest test Tuesday. The U.S. Supreme Court, without comment, declined to take up a case challenging the state’s Disclose Act. The high court leaves in place a lower court’s ruling that Montana’s so-called ‘Disclose … Continue reading
Amy Chozick for the NYT. … Continue reading
NCSBE attorney @josh_lawson says the documents were specifically mentioned in the subpoena and within its scope. Lawson- "we have been aware of those documents that have never been produced for quite some time." #NC09— Joe Bruno (@JoeBrunoWSOC9) February 21, 2019 … Continue reading
WaPo: The son of Republican congressional candidate Mark Harris testified Wednesday that he warned his father repeatedly that he believed a political operative now at the center of an election-fraud investigation had previously used illegal tactics to win votes.John Harris, … Continue reading
Politico: Recent posts that have received widespread dissemination include racially inflammatory memes and messaging involving Harris, O’Rourke and Warren. In Warren’s case, a false narrative surfaced alleging that a blackface doll appeared on a kitchen cabinet in the background of … Continue reading
News and Observer: The Bladen County political operative at the center of possible election fraud in North Carolina’s 9th Congressional District assured the top consultant for Republican Mark Harris’ campaign that he was running a legal operation throughout the 2018 … Continue reading
This paper is what Dowless gave them and told them to say, Britt says. pic.twitter.com/dJ9kBHolq2— Ely Portillo (@ESPortillo) February 18, 2019 … Continue reading
News & Observer: The stepdaughter of a Bladen County political operative detailed how she said his ballot harvesting operation worked on the first day of a hearing Monday into voting irregularities in the unresolved 2018 election in North Carolina’s 9th … Continue reading
Follow Joe Bruno at the hearing. I’ll be very surprised if the board does not vote for a new election given what we are seeing so far. … Continue reading
Donald Trump created a permanent presidential campaign. Here’s how. – Center for Public Integrity Sidebar: https://publicintegrity.org/federal-politics/donald-trump-army-super-pacs-maga-nonprofits/ Inside Donald Trump’s army of super PACs and MAGA nonprofits – Center for Public Integrity Poll: https://publicintegrity.org/federal-politics/elections/center-for-public-i Center for Public Integrity/Ipsos poll: How should presidential campaigns … Continue reading
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Ryan Scoville has posted this draft on SSRN (forthcoming Duke Law Journal). Here is the abstract: In making appointments to the office of ambassador, U.S. presidents often select political supporters from outside the ranks of the State Department’s professional diplomatic corps. This … Continue reading
Good Amanda Becker piece for Reuters: Legally, Super PACs are supposed to operate independently of candidates and cannot contribute to them directly. In reality, they often are run by donors close to the candidates and their campaigns.David Donnelly, president of … Continue reading
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Updated Campaign Finance Institute report. … Continue reading
Adam Entous and Ronan Farrow in the New Yorker: Psy-Group’s larger ambition was to break into the U.S. election market. During the 2016 Presidential race, the company pitched members of Donald Trump’s campaign team on its ability to influence the … Continue reading